The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance is a yearlong program enabling midcareer journalists to pursue a significant reporting project examining health care systems.
The program, in its 14th year, is meant to help journalists understand and report on the performance of local health care markets and the U.S. health system as a whole. To learn more, visit the Association of Health Care Journalists website.
The 2024 program will support five projects:
- Sheila Eldred, Sahan Journal — A series of stories centered on Minnesota’s biggest health disparities.
- Hannah Furfaro, Seattle Times — A probe of the dangerous gaps in care for youth addicted to opioids that has put their care decades behind that of adults in Washington state.
- Jayne Hopson, Baltimore Times — Highlighting the connection between health literacy and health outcomes in communities of color in Maryland — and the search for solutions.
- Jessica Mador, WABE Atlanta — Connecting the dots underlying Georgia’s maternal mortality crisis and efforts underway to address it.
- Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram — Investigating the significant decline in childhood vaccination rates in Texas and how communities can restore trust in science.